Funeral services were held Saturday, March 10, 2018 at Mt. Zion M. B. Church for Miss Melissa Ann White, 50, who died Friday, March 2, 2018, at Jefferson Davis Community Hospital in Prentiss. Rev. Kevin Youngblood officiated with interment following in the church cemetery. Johnson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Miss Melissa Ann White was born in Laurel to Carvis and Mary White. She was a member of Mt. Zion M. B. Church.  She graduated in the Class of 1985 from Prentiss High School. She worked at KLH, Magnetek and Howard Industries.

She is survived by daugther, TaQuisha White of Prentiss; parents, Carvis and Turtle White of Prentiss; one granddaughter, LaNeisha White-Gregory of Prentiss; maternal grandmother, Rubia Hartzog of Prentiss; two sisters, Barbara Nelson of Prentiss; Joan Jackson of Gulfport; one brother, Calvin (Tina) White of Collins and many other relatives and friends.